First of all they add about 10 pounds of make-up the the girls face before.
Second they extended her neck, and made her shoulders more contoured
Then they make her lips more prominent
They airbrushed a lot of her face and gave her a perfect complexion
finally they raised her eyebrows up and made her eyes bigger, and more radiant.
I think that when advertising beauty, it gives people false expectations of what they should look like. Enough people in this world think so horribly of themselves due to the media shining light on what seems to be "perfection"
When you are changing to make the people seem perfect, and change everything about them, that is wrong, but when you change something minor to help a person, like a blemish, or a missing tooth, that's okay.
They are similar because people don't want to be lied to, especially when it directly impacts what they think of themselves, and the world around them. In photojournalism i think the rules should be and are much stricter because the whole point of photojournalism is to tell a story through a picture, and you don't want to be given a false story. Anyone can take a picture, but it takes a photographer to take a photo, and thus create photojournalism.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Photojournalism Ethics
I think that most of the rules should be situational because under certain circumstances altering a photo is perfectly alright. If a photographer takes a picture of a dog helping a person stand back up; it's a sweet photo, but if also the photographer shot another peeing, that takes away from what the photographer actually wanted and in any case, was useless.
However, if you take a picture of a guy and he's just standing there, and you add someone with a gun next to him, that is under no circumstances alright.
I think that it is important for new organizations to define the rules because the viewers of the program don't want to be fed false information about things that directly impact them.
However, if you take a picture of a guy and he's just standing there, and you add someone with a gun next to him, that is under no circumstances alright.
I think that it is important for new organizations to define the rules because the viewers of the program don't want to be fed false information about things that directly impact them.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Ethics Intro - Photo Manipulation
In an attempt to show diversity at a college they digitally put a black guy in a picture of white people cheering at a game. People got angered by it and they told them it misrepresented the school.
I think that when it comes to people's appearance for example: blemishes, scars, messy hair, it doesn't matter, but when the editing changes the intent of the picture and it makes the picture more meaning full, but artificially, it is wrong.

I think that this is the least unethical because moving the pyramids closer together don't effect anything, the camels were still walking together and there are actually moutains.
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